Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Context of joining IIMC
• General environment at IIMC
• Changes after liberalisation; pressures to professionalise management education
• Pressures of accreditation and accountability of the Institute
• Student recruitment; quota and Murli Manohar Joshi
• Two decades at IIMC; notions about IIMC
• Administration; relationship between faculty and administration
• Life on campus
• First day at IIMC; other professors at the time
• Interview for the position at IIMC; the Board of Directors
• Campus culture; extra-curricular activities
• Entrance exams
• Retirement of other colleagues; Chairman of PGP; Decision
• Journal, publications and editing
• Inter-disciplinary courses; government support for business; role of social sciences in management education
• Curriculum change
• Life and learning at IIMC
• Commonality of academic language and life
• Adjusting to Calcutta and the Institute; local politics; government support
• Political culture, student councils in business schools versus universities

Interviewed by: Indira Chowdhury and Mahua BishtInterview Place: IIM CalcuttaInterview Date: 21st February 2012

 Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Background.
• TIFR, pressure of taking up science; studying Economics.
• Ds at University of Illinois; working at Arizona State University.
• Applying for jobs in India; selection at IIMC.
• Economics versus HR; Annapurna Shaw and CSSSC .
• Functional versus non-functional areas; informal environment at IIMC; respect for quality research.
• Best teacher award; changing nomenclature of groups.
• Reasons for changing group identity; composition of the current HR group.
• Globalisation, changing academic interests and curriculum.
• Changing nature of research.
• Influence of Naxalite movement on faculty and curriculum.
• Raising revenue for the Institute; publishing papers.
• Calcutta- lack of an industrial environment; recruitments outside Calcutta.
• Vikram Sarabhai, IIMA; Migration of faculty over the years.
• Initial trouble for outsiders with fitting in at IIMC; accommodation at Calcutta.
• Father’s visit to IIMC; Bengali favouritism at CSSSC in the early years.
• Sumit Guha and the history course at IIMC.
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Barun De and labour history.
• Archival photos and representation.
• Kendriya Vidyala; Marxists’ children and International schools; exhibition.
• Satyen Chakraborty and his photographs.
• Alumni meetings.
• Campus culture, living on campus and impact on son.
• Son’s education and career.
• Ramu Aiyar; neglect of campus; living in the city.
• Manicured gardens and trees on campus; gymnasium and swimming pool.
• Housing of young recruits.
• Culture of IIMC.
• Autonomy and government control.
• Journal.
• Teacher-student ratios and repetition of classes.
• Minimum teaching and conclusion.

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: Kamini Adhikari’s house, CalcuttaInterview Date: 22nd June 2011

 Table of Contents:

• Family background, education and marriage.
• Coming to IIM-C; Early IIM-C environment and setup
• Individuals and relationships at IIM-C.
• Ishwar Dayal and writing Organisation and Administration.
• Individuals from MIT and relationships with faculty from MIT.
• The Fellowship Program; institution-building activities.
• Women at IIM-C.
• Culture of IIM-C.
• Naxal Movement.
• Retiring and reflecting upon vision with which IIM-C was built.

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: Mrityunjay Athreya’s house, New DelhiInterview date: 12th March 2012

 Table of Contents:

• Family background and education
• Learning stenography and typing; Initial work experience
• Studying at Stanford and Harvard; Joining IIM-C
• The Institute under K.T Chandy; ‘Indian-ness of IIM-C’
• Differences between IIM-A and IIM-C; learning atmosphere at IIM-C; the
• Indian business environment
• Behavioural Sciences at IIM-C; ‘T-Groups’; MIT’s influence
• Diversity of learning; The IIM-C ‘brand’
• Student- Teacher interactions; Meeting his wife at IIM-C
• Context of leaving; IIM-C’s influence.

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: Subir Chowdhury’s house, Garcha Road, KolkataInterview Date: 24th February 2012

 Table of Contents:

• Family and Educational Background.
• World War II and Calcutta.
• Joining Tata Industrial Company.
• Moving to England; Posting in Calcutta.
• Joining IIM-C; Emerald Bower.
• Fellowship in America.
• Move to Hyderabad .
• Influence of industrial experience in teaching; Differences between IIM-C and IIM-A.
• Reflections of ASCI and IIM-C.
• Designing a unique course.

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya’s Residence, KolkataInterview Date: 22nd February 2012

 Table of Contents:

• Educational background and research projects.
• Involvement with IIM Calcutta.
• Work in Chicago; IIM Calcutta and MIT.
• Teaching Economic History at IIM Calcutta.
• Cosmopolitanism in the IIM Calcutta campus; insulation from politics during the Naxal period.
• IIM Calcutta campus.
• Relationship with other colleagues.
• Unique culture of IIM Calcutta.
• IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad.

Interviewed by: Indira ChowdhuryInterview Place: CalcuttaInterview Date: 21st February 2012

 Table of Contents:

• Background, education and marriage.
• On heading management institute set up by Indian Army.
• Experience of teaching at IIM Calcutta.
• The shifting of the IIM campus to Joka and associated issues.
• The academic environment in IIM Kolkata.
• The changes brought in by different Directors.
• The selection process for the post of Director.
• Role in IIM Calcutta.
• Difference with IIM Ahmedabad.
• The unique characteristics of IIM Kolkata.